Review: Fallout: New Vegas
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An achievement/trophy.antipunt said:
Hardcore mode really isn't that hard, the most difficult thing about it is probably dealing with crippled limbs, the food/water aspect isn't difficult as finding food that restores them both at the same time (for a couple rads usually) isn't difficult.
I've become dehydrated once after sleeping for 12 hours (wanted daylight) and two dirty water's fixed that up in a jiffy.
The ammo weight isn't much of a problem either if you are going for small guns playstyle, might be a problem with big guns however, just pick a few gun types to use and be on your way.
The addition of armor and hence, armor piercing rounds (also has hallow points) is a fun change, Radscorpions + Armor piercing rounds = dead scorpion.
I'm having a lot of fun playing so far, the improvements overall from Fallout 3 are nice, still lots of weird bugs from time to time, many can be resolved however by putting away your weapon and pulling it back out. For example, a few times I've gone to bring up my pipboy and it was either invisible, unreadable, or off-screen, in all situations the "gun trick" i just mentioned corrected it. Game has frozen on me once after 6 straight hours of play, luckily I had just auto-saved so I lost nothing but 1 radscorpion kill.
I cannot wait to beat the game and do everything I can do, and then start over with the Wild Wasteland trait
"The point at which I decided it would all be OK was random. I was walking from one place to the next and happened to spot an odd shape off the trail. I walked closer and noticed it was a refrigerator laid on its back with the door ripped off. Inside was the skeleton of a man wearing a hat. No explanation given. I took the hat and put it on and went about my business. There was no sinister purpose to this interaction. No overt message, or secret meaning. I had found the remains of a man who'd met an untimely end and had been stuffed into a refrigerator. Nothing more, nothing less."
isn't that a nod to that indiana jones scene from the crystal skull movie? where a man with a fancy hat steps into a fridge to survive a nuclear bomb explosion? XD
isn't that a nod to that indiana jones scene from the crystal skull movie? where a man with a fancy hat steps into a fridge to survive a nuclear bomb explosion? XD
Maybe Russ just isn't that bright but I doubt it considering his Editor in Chief status. I think he's well aware of what the man in the refrigerator was supposed to represent. It just one more instance of dark humor in the game.
Guys, I know Indiana Jones jumped into a refrigerator to survive a nuclear explosion in the Crystal Skull movie.
Yes, the man in the fridge wearing a hat in New Vegas may likely be a nod on the part of the developers to that horrible film, and likely is. The point is the reference was so subtle it could be there or not. Like a quark, or Darth Vader in the cave.
I've edited this review to make my point more clear since it seems the point I was trying to make, too, was so vaporous it might not have been observed. My bad. Carry on.
Yes, the man in the fridge wearing a hat in New Vegas may likely be a nod on the part of the developers to that horrible film, and likely is. The point is the reference was so subtle it could be there or not. Like a quark, or Darth Vader in the cave.
I've edited this review to make my point more clear since it seems the point I was trying to make, too, was so vaporous it might not have been observed. My bad. Carry on.
I can't wait to get this, i loved fallout 3 but i've heard that like 3 when you complete the final mission it just ends like in fallout, damm
...I feel vaguely stupid that this never occurred to me. Good plan!tehroc said:
Although now I've remembered that Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is coming out. Curse my financial situation as a student!
On food and water, I believe that when travelling on the world map you would occasionally get a "dehydration" encounter, where you'd be thrown into one of those random encounter screens with a message telling you that you had to waste time looking for water and you get a few HP points knocked off. Your outdoorsman skill affected how often you'd get the encounter.Fronzel said: